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title = "Dear Corporal Ghost"
date = 2024-10-03
description = "letter"
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Dear Corporal Ghost {#dear-corporal-ghost-1}
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I don\'t want to use your real name, but I think your rank at the time
of what I\'m writing about is fine. You\'ll know it\'s me because of my
name on my own blog here. If that doesn\'t ring a bell then all I can
say is you called me Alphabet.

It\'s been a while. I listen to a lot of folks on the talking about
things, especially since 2021, and I figured I could at least address
something that happened a long time ago. There is so much chatter about
things, and people criticizing others, that I can at least do this one
thing.

The main thing I want to say is that I sincerely apologize for wasting
your time. I realize how valuable our time is and what you were doing at
the time. I deeply regret what happened. I was ordered to ghost you by a
higher ranking NCO. They told me I needed to disappear and that if you
or any of your team found me I needed to shut-up and say nothing. So
when you did find me, that is exactly why I said nothing. Everything you
said was true. I completely wasted your time and probably everyone else
you were with.

The sad thing is, what I was involved in all turned out to be futile. It
wasn\'t until a few years later while working with another group that I
was indirectly able to in my mind redeem myself.

I could not have known all of these things at the time. I was a lot
younger and I don\'t think anyone at the time thought things would have
lasted more than another decade at the time.

Overall my life has turned out pretty great. I hope yours has too.
